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“You can also adopt a child and get piercings or tattoos without a parent. Ah! I got it!”

“What?”

“You can get medical procedures. For example boob implants. Maybe he wants your girls even bigger.” She winked at me.

I groaned. “Oh no. He probably wants me to have huge knockers to look like Olivia.”

“Stop it. I was totally joking. Your knockers are perfect.”

“Thanks, but they’re not Olivia sized.”

“Those will be saggy as hell in a few years. Besides, Axel doesn’t like Olivia.”

“Right, Jacob does.” Even though he’d looked me in the eye and told me he didn’t. Such a “good boy” as my dad would say.

Sophie shook her head. “Screw him. This is about you and Axel and his romantic countdown. Maybe it’s the live independently thing then. He’s tired of your dad always hovering.”

“Is this list of things even specific to NYC?” I asked.

Sophie shrugged. “I have no idea.”

I laughed. “God, I really hope he doesn’t want me to get a boob job.”

“He doesn’t, I was only kidding. It’s definitely the living independently thing. Or maybe he wants to propose?”

I laughed again. “Sure. The guy who doesn’t want to go on a date with me wants to marry me, adopt a child together, and rent an apartment, all after I get surgery for double Ds.”

“Well, I don’t know. I’m not the serial killer with the countdown.”

“You just said it was a romantic countdown!”

“Can’t it be both?”

I saw Leo over by his locker. “I’ll be right back. I gotta go update Leo on the dance.”

“Have fun.”

I hurried over to him. “Hey.”

He smiled down at me. “Hey, what’s up?”

“Are you already 18?”

“Yes?”

“Were you looking forward to anything when you turned 18? Like anything specifically?”

He shrugged. “Not really. Why?”

“No reason.”

He laughed. “It seems like there’s a reason.”

“It’s not important. What’s important is that my dad found out about your record.”

“Oh? Can I get my record wiped at 18 or something?”

“I don’t know.”